Team will be looking for Tallahassee artifacts, memorabilia for the store

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Nov. 26, 2012

Bass Pro Shops' White River Outpost in Branson, Mo., is the store design that will be used in Tallahassee.

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For avid fisherman Leonard Dietzen, there could scarcely be anything better than Bass Pro Shops opening a store in Tallahassee, which the company recently announced it will do in 2013.

"I shop at a lot of them. They have more specials, more variety and more choices," said Dietzen, who fishes the area's lakes and the tidal areas on the St. Marks River near the coast.

Before, he made the trek to Destin to a Bass Pro Shop there when he was shopping for fishing tackle and supplies. Now the company with the unique wildlife decor and its own line of bass boats will be much closer. ...